Stories in themselves are not automatically good

Just as love makes you blind so does wealth, and of the two blindnesses wealth is the worse because of the incalculable harm it is able to do to people other than yourself.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

some time a big event could not make you happy, but some time a small gift can change the geography of your face.

A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.

History should be written as philosophy.

Thank God he killed the guy. Oh, now, wait a minute. What kind of a prayer was that!

There are many things that I don't understand.

Mum decided that I could sing a bit, so she put me in a choir, which I hated and it was just a nightmare. I was a rebellious sort of choirboy.

... the American Colonists under King George III had it pretty good compared to us. They would wonder why we haven't taken up arms and seceded yet.

Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease.